The Instituto de Educação (IE) is the School of Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa) dedicated to research, teaching and intervention in the public sphere, in the field of education and training.
We promote the best university education, providing our students with the right conditions to learn and take action in different contexts of education and training, in public services, in companies and in the third sector. Our educational offer is increasingly aimed at a variety of publics, from young people beginning their studies in the 1st cycle, to those seeking new skills during their professional careers, particularly through post-graduate training.
Research is our driving activity and we respond to the contemporary challenges of education and innovation by producing diagnostic and prospective knowledge, directed at public policy and action. We privilege research focused on the challenges of differentiation, modernisation and improvement of educational offers, and on political, social and cultural processes, of change in education.
We intervene primarily in Portuguese society, in multiple fields of education, while engaging intensely in academic and cooperation networks within Europe and in Portuguese speaking countries, from where we are receiving an ever-expanding contingent of post-graduate students.
We work hard to be ‘a voice in public action’, achieving powerful presence in the spaces where education is thought about, discussed, deliberated and implemented, and a ‘leading school’, in education and in research, in both national and international contexts.

IE research aims to develop knowledge that contributes to the diagnosis, conceptualization and transformation of processes of curriculum development, of learning and development of students, and of the development of teachers and other educational professionals.
Two main intersecting lines of inquiry are defined, in accordance with Education XXI and Change Forces UIDEF themes: (1) Inclusion and equity in school; and (2) Teacher training and supervision. Pedagogy of higher education and teacher education for inclusion emerge as transversal challenges.
Several projects are now in progress related to those lines, focusing on school inclusion, digital inclusion, social inclusion and intercultural education, inclusion in higher education and learning and training of teachers with technologies.
Working on the project ICT for SEN students (ICTeam) is amongst our interests due to its educational and European value. IE wishes collaboration with University Professors, teachers and educators form non formal education in order to combine views from different actors. IE will offer pedagogical guidance for LTTAs, training of teachers and Intellectual Outputs.
 

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